Professor Karl Behrendt

• Research group lead of the Global Institute for Agri-Tech Economics
• Executive Committee, Agricultural Economics Society
• Rural Policy Group (Council Member)
• National Centre for Precision Farming member
• Adjunct Research Professor, Charles Sturt University, Gulbali Institute, Australia

Postgraduate Supervision

Current supervisions:

• G. Wager (HAU PhD, Elizabeth Creak Fellow: Automated monitoring and high-resolution analysis of feeding behaviours in housed cattle)
• E. Maritan (HAU PhD: Factors affecting labour-related benefits through innovation adoption in agriculture)
• S. Baker (HAU PhD: The role of intermediaries in the process of agricultural policy design and implementation. A post Brexit case study in England)
• B. Wiseman (HAU PhD: Soil Biodiversity: Value and Impact on Ecosystem Services)
• J. Broadhurst (HAU PhD: Optimum strategies for UK beef producers to achieve net zero)
• P. Rai (CSU PhD: Unravelling Regenerative Farming Realities: Investigating economic, social and environmental outcomes and preferences of Regenerative Farmers in an Australian farming context). 
• M. Ager (CSU PhD: Determining optimal space allocation and bedding rate of feedlot cattle under covered housing systems)

Previous supervisions:

• Dr J. Collins (2025, A systems-level evaluation of conservation agriculture within the UK)
• Dr G.B. Martignone (2025, An examination of the Asymmetric Price Transmission in Soybean - A case study in the world market)
• Dr M. Khan (2025, Managing sustainability compliance of multi-tier food supply chains through intermediaries)
• Dr A.K.M. Al-Amin (2024, Elizabeth Creak Fellow: An economic assessment of autonomous equipment for field crops)
• Dr P. Theofanous (2023, Price Linkages in major EU Olive Oil Markets)
• Dr J. Kelly (2020, Impact of weed seeds on carcase quality in sheep meat enterprises)
• Dr S. Godfrey (2015, Traditional domestic milk value chains and dairy policy environment in Pakistan)

• ABP PRISM 2030 - Researcher
• AHDB Landscape Recovery Project - Researcher
• AHDB Resilience Review and Action Plan for farmers in England - Researcher
• AHDB Sustainable Farming Incentive Project - Principal Investigator
• Alternative business models - wetter farming and land management on and around protected lowland raised bogs - Project Director
• Breed for CH4nge - Breeding Lower Methane Sheep - Co-Investigator
• D4AgEcol - Digitalisation for Agri-Ecology - Principal Investigator
• Defining the economic and social benefits of regenerative farming systems - Principal Researcher
• Economics of swarm robotics in UK agriculture - Researcher
• Farm Business Management Tools and Techniques - Researcher
• Impact of agri-environmental schemes and the emerging biodiversity and carbon credit markets on farm resilience - Advisor
• Paludiculture Innovation Project (PIP) - EAgri-Tech Economic Modelling
• Pasture to Plate - Researcher
• Patchy Peat Solutions Project - CO-I
• Quantitative modelling for post EU exit trade deals (UK Agricultural Industry) - Researcher
• Strengthening incentives for improved grassland management in China and Mongolia - Researcher
• The Beef Toolkit - Principal Investigator
• The Carbon Exchange: Mapping the Drivers and Impact of the Carbon Market on Rural Enterprises in the UK - Researcher
• The integration of PA tools and technologies for resilient and sustainable agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa - Principal Investigator

• StageTHREE Sustainable Grasslands Model - Technical Note
• List of Publications